Pleasant Gap, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,690 ft 515 m1,490 ft 455 m1,390 ft 425 m1,190 ft 360 m990 ft 300 m890 ft 270 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pleasant Gap sits at about 1,010 ft (310 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,010 ft 310 m
most residents: 970–1,090 ft
Lowest
890 ft 270 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,690 ft 515 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,060 ft 320 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Pleasant Gap spans about 800 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 890 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pleasant Gap | 990 ft300 m |
| Airport (UNV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi west of the CDP boundary | 1,231 ft375 m |
| Average of all land | 1,060 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,945 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,846 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8681° N, 77.7467° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- West Branch Susquehanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- State College Regional (UNV) 1,231 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16823
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Centre Hall1,320 ft
- Potter Township1,290 ft
- Lemont1,080 ft
- Benner Township1,080 ft
- Zion1,050 ft
- Houserville1,030 ft
- Spring Township, Centre County1,020 ft
- Pleasant Gap1,010 ft
- Peru990 ft
- Bellefonte870 ft
- Milesburg700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,695th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Centre County56th highest of 78
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Pleasant Gap is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.